Of the 10 companies that produced the highest amounts of toxic emissions in 2012, nine are associated with the pulp and paper industry, including Sappi Fine Paper and Verso Paper Holdings. By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, Staff Writer Kennebec Journal news story The federal government’s latest list of the biggest polluters in Maine includes a handful of the Read More
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Meeting Angers River Group
By Lindsay Tice, Staff Writer Lewiston Sun Journal news story When the Maine Department of Environmental Protection held a public meeting June 18 to get comment on reclassifying some rivers, brooks and streams, the Androscoggin River Alliance didn’t go. The Androscoggin River wasn’t up for reclassification or discussion, according to the public notice. And while Read More
Androscoggin Recreation Plans Have FPL, River Advocates at Odds
By Scott Taylor, Staff Writer Sun Journal news story Recreation will be key to the Androscoggin River’s future, but advocates and officials from FPL Energy can’t agree about where to begin. FPL Energy officials are hoping to file their Land/Trail Management Plan for the Gulf Island Dam/Deer Rips project with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Read More
Appeal Reopens Pollution Debate
by Scott Thistle, Regional Editor Lewiston Sun Journal news story AUGUSTA – A portion of a January decision by the Maine Board of Environmental Protection that issued new industrial pollution permits for the Androscoggin River is being appealed by FPL Energy Maine Hydro LLC in Kennebec County Superior Court. FPL is appealing a portion of Read More
State OKs Discharge Permits
By Rebekah Metzler, Staff Writer Lewiston Sun Journal news story AUGUSTA – Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection voted unanimously Thursday to approve new permit standards for two mills and a hydroelectric dam on the Androscoggin River. The citizen board approved a more restrictive wastewater discharge level for the Verso mill in Jay and increased the Read More
Isn’t It Time for Senator Muskie to Get His Wish?
Lewiston Sun Journal editorial
New Plan Could Improve Health of Androscoggin
Paper mills and a power company could appeal the cleanup proposal for part of the river near Lewiston. by John Richardson, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story A state environmental panel is expected to rule next month that the Androscoggin River, Maine’s dirtiest major waterway and an inspiration for the U.S. Clean Water Act, Read More
BEP Issues Draft Order for Androscoggin
By Scott Thistle, Regional Editor Sun Journal news story LEWISTON – Advocates for improving water quality on the Androscoggin River said Friday they both win and lose in a recently issued draft order for changes to pollution permits for two mills and a dam operator on the river. Among other things the order, which won’t Read More
Summary of NRCM’s Androscoggin River Discharge Permit Appeal
On Wednesday, May 2, 2007 the Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) began 6 days of hearings to consider an appeal by NRCM and others of the DEP’s proposed wastewater discharge license for the Verso papermill in Jay, Maine, formerly owned by IP. More than three decades after former Maine Senator Edmund Muskie wrote the Clean Read More
